Urban Horror - Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility

Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Urban Horror: Speculative Futures of Chinese Cinemas  1
1. Cartographies of Socialism and Post-Socialism: The Factory Gate and the Threshold of the Visible World  33
2. Intimate Dystopias: Post-Socialist Femininity and the Marxist-Feminist Interior  69
3. The Post- as Media Time: Documentary Experiments and the Rhetoric of Ruin Gazing  101
4. Post-Socialism in Hong Kong: Zone Urbanism and Marxist Phenomenology  146
5. The Ethics of Representing Precarity: Film in the Era of Global Complicity  184
Epilogue  218
Notes  223
Bibliography  245
Index  259

About the author

Erin Y. Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Summary

Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Y Huang, Erin Y. Huang
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781478006794
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0679-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Sinotheory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Literaturtheorie, China, Asiatische Geschichte, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, HISTORY / Asia / China